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  <title>MediaGoblin crowdfunding campaign launches!</title>
  <meta name="date" content="2012-10-10 08:30" />
  <meta name="author" content="Christopher Allan Webber" />
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  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">
    <img src="/blog_images/support_mediagoblin-blagpost.png"
         alt="Gavroche imploring you to support mediagoblin!" />
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<p>
  Today we're excited to <a href="/pages/campaign.html">announce a
  crowdfunding campaign</a> to support MediaGoblin run in coordination
  with the <a href="http://fsf.org/">Free Software Foundation</a>!
  You may have heard that I quit my job as senior software engineer /
  tech lead at Creative Commons to pursue MediaGoblin fulltime and
  fund development.  Instead of using one of the more mainstream
  crowdfunding sites, we decided to team up with the Free Software
  Foundation, who is supporting our fundraising infrastructure.  Turns
  out, the FSF is pretty excited to help us out:
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<blockquote>
  We're excited about the GNU MediaGoblin project, and we're thrilled
  to be providing its grassroots fundraising infrastructure. Without a
  doubt, we need a decentralized, free software system for sharing our
  photos and videos. We need a system that doesn't require using
  nonfree software or handing our memories and artwork over to a
  single point of privacy-violating, proprietary ownership-claiming
  failure. MediaGoblin can be that system, and its future users can
  make it so. I look forward to the result -- and to the example this
  could set for funding other critical free software projects.
  <br />
  &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &mdash;
  <i>John Sullivan, Executive Director at the Free Software Foundation</i>
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<p>
  Of course we're thrilled to be partnering with the FSF as well since
  we have a lot of shared ideals!  MediaGoblin is aiming to bring
  media publishing back to the people.  There are other benefits to
  going through a freedom-loving nonprofit; for example, donations are
  tax deductible!  We've been working hard to educate through this
  campaign, as you'll see in the video!
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  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">
    <img src="/blog_images/promotional_censor_scan.png"
         alt="node being censored by bot" />
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    We've worked hard to explain issues, like automated censorship,
    with clear visual metaphors in the video
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<p>
  We encourage you to <a href="/pages/campaign.html">visit our
  campaign site</a> and watch the video, and check out our rewards.
  There are some awesome things in there... sponsored commits, special
  edition postcards, t-shirts, 3d printed models of our mascot (even
  hand painted by me if you donate enough!).
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  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">
    <img src="/blog_images/campaign_rewards.png"
         alt="Exciting rewards await you!" />
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    We've got really exciting rewards that you *know* you want in on!
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<p>
  Most importantly, we need you to
  <a href="/pages/campaign.html">donate</a> to help make
  the world's most beautiful media publishing future a reality!  We
  (and the decentralization of the internet) are counting on you!
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  <i>
    PS: If you want to get in contact with us, you can email
    press@mediagoblin.org.  Or, if you want to get
    involved, <a href="/pages/join.html">join us</a>!  We love contributors!
  </i>
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